Star Wars: The Other Side
(This story is rated M for Mature. Star Wars is © 1977-2005 LucasFilm Ltd. All other characters are mine)
Chapter 4: Darth Vader warns his master
Coruscant: Darth Vader walked as quickly as he could for someone trapped in life-sustaining armor for the past year. He knelt before his master.
"What is it, Lord Vader?" Palpatine said as he turned his chair around from the window.
"My Master, Lord Skywalker has discovered the resurrection of Darth Bane who will be resurrected in His own time. He suggests that we travel to the Future to stop him," Vader said.
"You are aware that Master Skywalker, Yourself, and my self exist in that time," Palpatine said.
"I am aware, but He tells me that if We do not, our Empire and other governments that follow it will not succeed," Vader said. They then heard Luke walk up.
"Master Skywalker, Your proposal is intriguing, but you are aware that we exist in that time period," Palpatine said.
"no, you don't. My father dies, and you along with him sometime in the future. In the era that I came from, the Jedi are reborn and the Empire has fallen and given way to the New Republic which was started as a rebellion some time after this point in time, a rebellion started by my mother and Bail Organa," Luke said.
"And you say that none of that will exist if we do not stop Lord Bane?" Palpatine said.
"I know of one of the tenets of the Sith Order, which is Betrayal is the way of the Sith. Darth Bane is vicious, and although he reformed the Sith Order similar to the Jedi Order, He is hellbent on revenge on undoing what you did, because he believed that your conquering the Universe was a corruption of the Sith," Luke said.
"What will He do? I know of the legend of Darth Bane," Palpatine said.
"My Son is a Sith Lord, and I have Jedi Knights searching the galaxy for him in my own time period. Darth Bane will kill him and every Sith or Jedi He finds. We must stop him or else all will be lost. You manipulated everything and everyone in the reconstruction of the Old Republic to become a reborn Sith Empire. But the Master Manipulator from the past will undo history as we know it. I'm still searching for the reason why the Jedi's greatest warrior and the Jewel of the Sith was split into two. There is however in this time period someone I know that could give me answers," Luke said.
"All the Jedi are extinct," Vader insisted.
"No, My apprentice. Obi-Wan Kenobi is alive. He is on Tatooine at this time. The reason why I didn't have you or my troopers kill him is because the Dark Side has flowed and sapped his strength in the Force," Palpatine said.
"He will aid me in my answers," Luke said.
"Then Go! Then after you have found what you are looking for, Then we will go to your time period and do battle against Darth Bane," Palpatine said. Luke bowed in respect to the Lord of the Sith and walked out of the Emperor's office and toward a shuttle bay.
"Halt Jedi! We have orders to kill a Jedi on site!" a Storm Trooper said removing his weapon. Luke raised his weapon in a defensive stance. The trooper then lowered it when he saw Lord Vader walking toward him.
"Allow my son a shuttle to get to Tatooine unhindered. Order Sixty-Six is suspended until after Darth Bane is destroyed! Let him pass!" Vader said raising his own Lightsaber.
"Thank you Father!" Luke said.
"Go my Son. I have alerted all Troopers on Tatooine to not fire upon you. You are the Scourge of the Sith and that will be your call sign to them. They will obey your every command as if it were my own! The Legacy of both the Sith and the Jedi Orders depend on you finding your answers!" Lord Vader said.
Luke boarded the shuttle. The shuttle pilot boarded with him.
"I know how to fly one of these. I don't need a pilot," Luke said remembering the days of Endor and He and Chewbacca flying a shuttle to The Forrest Moon of Endor to stop the Empire. He briefly mourned the loss of Chewbacca who was dead at the hands of a viral infection that nearly crippled the New Republic.
"Shuttle 892478, Scourge of the Sith taking off," He said into his comlink. He then heard over the shuttle speakers the voice of Darth Sidious speak.
"May The Force be With you!"
To be continued...